Candlestick Press
Biographies
Here you can find out more about the huge range of poets we feature in our pamphlets and the artists whose work appears on our beautiful covers.
We’ve now published poems by almost 800 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Benjamin Zephaniah. Although our emphasis is on British poetry, you’ll also find Irish, American and Australian writers.
We hope these pages will encourage you to explore further the work of a poet you’ve enjoyed in one of our pamphlets.
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DA Prince
DA Prince is a poet and writer based in Leicestershire. Her first published poems appeared in weekly competitions in the New Statesman and Spectator. HappenStance Press subsequently published three full-length collections: Nearly the Happy Hour (2008); Common Ground (2014) which won the East Midlands Book Award 2015, and The Bigger Picture (2022).
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Mel Pryor
Mel Pryor is a British poet based near Cambridge. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies and her collection Small Nuclear Family was published in 2015. She won the 2015 Philip Larkin Prize and her short fiction appears in Best British Short Stories 2021.
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Meryl Pugh
Meryl Pugh is a poet who was born in Wales and is now based in London. Her first full collection Natural Phenomena was published by Penned in the Margins in 2018. She has also published several pamphlets, most recently Wife of Osiris (Verve Poetry Press, 2021). She is a Poetry School tutor on the MA in Writing Poetry course.
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Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh is a poet, novelist and translator who was born in Birmingham and now lives in Shetland. She has published two novels and several poetry collections, the most recent of which is Afternoons Go Nowhere (Seren, 2019). Her book Stonelight (Seren, 1999) contains her own poems alongside translations of Medieval and Renaissance poetry and won the Wales Book of the Year Award.
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Victoria Punch
Victoria Punch is a voice coach and musician based in Devon. She is curious about voice and identity, the limits of language and how we perceive things and her poetry comes from these explorations. She has been published in Poetry and Reliquiae and is about to be published in One Hand Clapping.
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837) is Russia’s most famous poet and is widely considered to be the founder of modern Russian literature. His first major verse narrative, the mock epic Ruslan i Liudmila (1820), is a faux-fairytale based on Medieval Russian history. Perhaps his most famous long poem is Eugene Onegin (1833) which took seven years to write. Strangely, the fate of its hero foreshadows that of Pushkin himself who also died in a duel.
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